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Slaughter in Iraq is no US victory (28 Aug 2010, #2216)
A very revealing exchange took place on Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday of last week

Iraq: an illegal war that led to terrorism (31 Jul 2010, #2212)
Evidence given to the Chilcot inquiry into the war in Iraq is consistently proving the anti-war movement right

Exclusive: the story of the British soldier jailed for turning against the Iraq war (10 Jul 2010, #2209)
Twenty-two year Ross Williams from Neath in South Wales was posted to Iraq in 2007 – he went Awol and has just been released from Colchester military prison

Bombing in Iraq is a sign of brewing tensions (24 Jul 2010, #2211)
The bombing that killed at least 43 people in Radwaniya near Baghdad last week as they queued for their wages shows that instability still rocks Iraq

Veteran's story - 'We come home and are thrown on the scrapheap' (10 Jul 2010, #2209)
“When I was in Colchester at military prison I shared a cell with Joe Glenton,” says Ross

Iraq: twenty years since Desert Storm began the killing (31 Jul 2010, #2212)
Twenty years ago next week the US used Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait to show its power - Martin Percival looks at the terrible effects imperialism has had on that country’s people

Government knew the Iraq war was illegal (10 Jul 2010, #2209)
Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith warned Tony Blair three months before the Iraq war that an invasion would be illegal, secret memos showed last week

Chilcot whitewash brings out the dirt (30 Jan 2010, #2186)
The Chilcot inquiry was set up to whitewash the Labour government’s lies over the 2003 Iraq war

US war machine keeps lurching on (20 Feb 2010, #2189)
The imperial war machine has been caught out lying yet again, but the nightmare continues however threadbare the justifications, writes Alex Callinicos

Iraq inquiry causes new storm for establishment (5 Dec 2009, #2180)
The Iraq inquiry’s first week has revealed the continuing crisis in the establishment over the invasion

Violence continues in Iraq (17 Oct 2009, #2173)
Iraq has been rocked by a series of blasts that have killed scores of people

Iraqi asylum seekers face violence on Baghdad flight (24 Oct 2009, #2174)
Iraqi asylum seekers are speaking out after suffering racism and violence on a deportation flight

Battle over trial of British mercenary in Iraq (29 Aug 2009, #2166)
The case of Daniel Fitzsimons, a former British soldier facing the death penalty in Iraq, reveals a lot about the chaotic hell in which that country is mired

Mercenaries in Iraq: big profits for private forces (29 Aug 2009, #2166)
ArmorGroup is just one of the “private security” contractors that have descended on Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime

Violence surges in Iraq as US loses past allies (15 Aug 2009, #2164)
Former allies of US occupation forces are the driving force behind a renewed wave of sectarian violence in Iraq

Tension growing over Iraq (25 Jul 2009, #2161)
The US military is finding the Iraqi interpretation of its Status of Forces Agreement a little hard to swallow

Truth behind Britain’s torture of Iraqi prisoners (18 Jul 2009, #2160)
Shocking images of British soldiers abusing Iraqi civilians were shown for the first time at the start of a public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa

Iraq occupation is not over (4 Jul 2009, #2158)
Iraqis greeted the withdrawal of US troops from their cities this week by dancing in the streets

Eyewitness to the wreckage of Iraq (13 Jun 2009, #2155)
Iraqi anti-war activist Sabah Jawad has just returned from a visit to Iraq

Demand more from Iraq inquiry (27 Jun 2009, #2157)
The row over the transparency, or otherwise, of the inquiry into the war on Iraq has exposed the continuing influence of Tony Blair on the Labour Party - and the weakness of Gordon Brown

Former US allies in Iraq become its enemies (18 Apr 2009, #2147)
The faultlines in Iraq are deepening as the country marks six years of occupation

US plans in danger as Iraq deal falls apart (11 Apr 2009, #2146)
One of the central planks of the US strategy to pacify Iraq has begun to unravel - just as it prepares to draw down its troops from the country

Mass demonstration in Iraq (29 Nov 2008, #2129)
Iraqi supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr, the rebel Shia cleric, demonstrated in their tens of thousands in Baghdad on Friday of last week

US war woes intensify as instability spreads (4 Oct 2008, #2121)
As the global financial markets went into meltdown on Monday, US general David Petraeus came knocking at Gordon Brown’s door

Iraq: image and reality (13 Sep 2008, #2118)
Behind the positive headlines about Iraq lies a country on the verge of chaos, writes Simon Assaf

Basra rises against wage cuts (8 Nov 2008, #2126)
Thousands of Iraqi workers took to the streets of Basra on 27 October in a protest at massive cuts in salaries demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

US deal does not mark the end of Iraq's occupation (30 Aug 2008, #2116)
The US has been forced to water down its plans for an open-ended occupation of Iraq in the face of growing opposition

Government ban on Iraq oil workers' union withdrawn (2 Aug 2008, #2112)
The Iraqi government has withdrawn an order banning eight key union organisers belonging to the powerful Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU)

US troops have Iran in their sights (2 Aug 2008, #2112)
The US is planning to send tens of thousands of troops to Iraq’s border with Iran in a move that threatens to escalate tensions across the Middle East

US establishment is split on war strategy (26 Jul 2008, #2111)
Many of the world’s leaders are treating Barack Obama as the US “president in waiting”

Reality behind the US rhetoric on Iraq (6 Sep 2008, #2117)
The US has made a great fanfare over the handing of control of Iraq’s Anbar province to its Iraqi allies this week

Iraq: New US plan for total control (7 Jun 2008, #2104)
Revealed: George Bush’s plan to impose ‘security accords’ that will mean 400 permanent military bases and US personnel given green light to kill

Iraqi oil to be handed to the West (5 Jul 2008, #2108)
Global oil corporations are set to return to Iraq, some five years after the US-led invasion of the country that plunged it into chaos

Depleted uranium: the silent killer stalks streets of Fallujah (21 Jun 2008, #2106)
The US military is attempting to cover up a great crime taking place in the Iraqi city of Fallujah

Basra uprising beats occupiers (5 Apr 2008, #2095)
The mass revolt that broke out across Iraq last week has exposed the hollow claim that the occupation has won a “strategic victory” in Iraq

Revolt spreads across Iraq (29 Mar 2008, #2094)
A mass revolt has broken out across Iraq against attempts by the US and its allies to crush the Shia Muslim resistance to the occupation

Hiding failure in Iraq with talk of ‘success’ (29 Mar 2008, #2094)
Despite George Bush’s claims, the US is no nearer victory in Iraq five years on, instead it is laying the groundwork for its future defeat, writes Simon Basketter

Winter Soldier: US Iraq veterans testify against their leaders’ war (29 Mar 2008, #2094)
Jason Moon suffers from persistent insomnia as he wrestles with memories of his time in Iraq

US airstrikes on Iraq rise 500 percent (2 Feb 2008, #2086)
Though George Bush claims the ‘surge’ brings peace in 2007 warplanes made 1,447 bombing runs

Did British troops murder 20 Iraqis at Amara? (1 Mar 2008, #2090)
“I have never heard anything like that sound ever before in my life

Vietnam vet on George Bush’s false history lesson (1 Sep 2007, #2066)
Author and Vietnam veteran Jerry Lembcke examins George Bush's comparisson between the Iraq and Vietnam wars

General Petraeus can’t disguise grim truth about Iraq (15 Sep 2007, #2068)
George Bush is trying to sell his “surge” of US troops in Iraq as a success

The British army was defeated in Basra, Mr Brown (8 Sep 2007, #2067)
The British army has been resoundingly defeated in Iraq - and the only person who doesn't know it is prime minister Gordon Brown

Chaos in Iraq as occupation fails (18 Aug 2007, #2064)
Simon Assaf looks at the desperate situation for ordinary Iraqis

Soldiers admit: 'Iraq war is lost' (5 May 2007, #2049)
From ordinary soldiers to frontline military commanders the message is bleak for those who dragged us into the "long war"

Resisting the plans to control Iraq’s oil (21 Jul 2007, #2060)
Iraqi union leader Hassan Jumaa Awad recently visited Britain to raise awareness of the US’s attempts to grab hold of his country’s oil resources

‘Dodgy dossier’ draft reveals war lies (23 Feb 2008, #2089)
The government was forced this week to release an initial draft of the infamous “dodgy dossier” that was used to justify the 2003 attack on Iraq

US elite knows the ‘surge’ is failing (9 Jun 2007, #2054)
Alex Callinicos looks at the contradictory messages coming out of the US about the war in Iraq

US covers up Iraq massacre (10 Feb 2007, #2037)
‘Surge’ begins with slaughter of pilgrims as British and US warplanes kill 263 civilians

Ghost prisoners: the truth about ‘extraordinary rendition’ (11 Nov 2006, #2026)
Journalist Stephen Grey describes how the US used ‘extraordinary rendition’ to torture prisoners in other parts of the world

Against embedding journalists (1 Mar 2008, #2090)
Cameraman José Couso was killed reporting the brutality of the Iraq war

Bush’s regime: lynch law in Iraq (10 Mar 2007, #2041)
Three women to hang for ‘backing resistance ’ l More jails now than under Saddam Hussein

US troops revolt against Iraq war (11 Nov 2006, #2026)
“The longer we stayed there, the more I opposed the war

Bush and the neocons: rats leave sinking ship (11 Nov 2006, #2026)
The architects of the invasion of Iraq are deserting the war they launched and blaming George Bush for the disaster

Statistics show the growing strength of the resistance in Iraq (11 Nov 2006, #2026)
At the beginning of the Iraq occupation, supporters of the war talked about the “tipping point” - the moment at which the occupation becomes accepted by the population

655,000 reasons to get out of Iraq now (21 Oct 2006, #2023)
The death toll of the war on Iraq is much higher than even the most gloomy estimates

‘I’m telling you to get the troops out of Iraq’ (23 Jun 2007, #2056)
Soldier’s mother sends her anti-war message to Brown

George Galloway demands Blair held to account for Iraq (4 Nov 2006, #2025)
The House of Commons debated calls for an inquiry into government policy in Iraq and its aftermath on Tuesday as Socialist Worker went to press

Letting Bush and Blair off the hook (11 Nov 2006, #2026)
What a cowardly bunch of timeserving lickspittles Labour backbenchers are

Collapse of George Bush’s Iraq strategy (14 Oct 2006, #2022)
George Bush has taken to saying that, in retrospect, the present violence in Iraq “will look like just a comma” - I doubt if the families of the 30 US soldiers who were killed in Baghdad last week will ever see it that way

General Dannatt’s attack: a blow that has left New Labour reeling (21 Oct 2006, #2023)
General Dannatt’s attack on the government’s Iraq strategy is a sign of an establishment in crisis

Counting the dead in Iraq (23 Apr 2005, #1948)
We interview Dr Les Roberts, whose survey in Iraq found that 100,000 civilians had been killed after the invasion

The corporate plunder of Iraq (11 Feb 2006, #1987)
The looting of Iraq’s oil wealth is unprecedented in the history of corporate crime, writes criminologist Dave Whyte

Iraq investigator: troops should have shot, not crucified prisoner (14 Oct 2006, #2022)
Awayed Wanas Jabbar was tortured and murdered, but no one will face punishment

Stop the War demonstration: ‘Justice is coming for Britain’s war criminal’ (25 Mar 2006, #1993)
More than 100,000 anti-war protesters from across Britain marched in London last Saturday against three years of occupation in Iraq and the threats of a military attack on Iran

After the London bombings the movement must rise to the new challenge (30 Jul 2005, #1961)
The Respect national secretary, John Rees, writes on the tasks we now face

They knew Iraq war would fuel terror (20 Mar 2004, #1893)
THE WORLD will be a safer place," foreign secretary Jack Straw told parliament two days before the war on Iraq

Why the mainstream media fails us on Iraq (26 Nov 2005, #1978)
As reports finally surface about the use of white phosphorous in Iraq, David Miller explains how the mainstream media has failed

Jailed for 30 years for criticising 'free' Iraq (14 Jan 2006, #1983)
Kamal Sayid Qadir wrote an article criticising the US backed government in Iraqi Kurdistan and now he has been jailed for 30 years

Iraq's other death toll (28 Feb 2004, #1890)
The US government is trying to hide the scale of casualties among its forces in Iraq

Arundhati Roy speaks from the World Tribunal on Iraq (G8 protests special special, July 2005)
The Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy spoke on behalf of the jury of conscience at the World Tribunal on Iraq, which took place last week in Istanbul, Turkey

British soldiers walk away from war (19 Aug 2006, #2014)
Figures released by the ministry of defence this week show that the number of soldiers deserting the army has more than doubled since the start of the Iraq war

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